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I have been testing Steam streaming over Ethernet and it's not been very satisfactory yet. I don't want to slam the service, but I just wonder whether the Link could somehow make the guarantee that the streaming will be (close to) perfect. Reply0

There's a very clear analogy with the movie business. Somewhere in the 70s someone said that the movie industry is no longer an industry (you make something and want to sell it as much as possible), but a business (a finance-driven enterprise). Reply0

If they had opened up some of the Live web-interface API's to all the hobbyist developers out there, the world (especially the Live part of it) would have been a much better place. Why do they keep it all so close-guarded? Reply0

This is an old discussion. Zool had Chubba Chups (or whatever they're called), Amiga Power frequently fumed about advertising in games, and I even remember WEC Le Mans (on the CPC) having true-to-life (and paid for) advertisements (for BP).

It's the same as in the movies: if it's too obvious, I'll hate the movie/game for it. If not, no problem. Reply0

Vivendi originally was a company providing commodities such as water to the masses. Some clown thought the company should "create synergies" with the media and bought Universal, together with loads of other (new) media companies.

Needless to say, the company's still short on cash (it had loads before), its stock is worthless and its former chairman has been arrested. Messier is the epitome of the useless money-burning corporate twats we hear more and more of.